#amy comey barrett

[mitchipedia]

How the “Brooks Brothers Riot” Set the Stage for Insurrection

Chris Lehmann at The Nation:

The precedent set by the post-election uprising in Miami-Dade County gives the lie to the common depiction of the failed Trumpian coup as an isolated and outlying event in the annals of right-wing protest. In reality, the “Brooks Brothers riot,” staged amid the surreal, fiercely contested battle over the Florida vote, laid out the blueprint. Then, as in 2020, key legal and political strategists on the right sought to disrupt a clear procedural mandate to preserve the integrity of a vote count. The symbolic staging of the right-wing uprising conveyed the clear message that the votes of a white, upscale electorate were innately more American, legitimate, and potent than the more numerous non-white coalition that broke for the Democratic presidential ticket.

Still more remarkably, both disruptive actions aimed at flipping the election into the Republican column took shape under the guidance of fabled right-wing dirty-tricks impresario Roger Stone—an ardent student of Nixonian electoral realpolitik who moved seamlessly into the vanguard of the Trumpian right. The legal arm of the GOP’s orchestrated bid to shut down the 2000 election recount in Florida boasted no less than three future Supreme Court justices among its foot soldiers: Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

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It’s not hard to discern distinct echoes here of the far more militant demands from the aggrieved January 6 mob to overrun the Capitol barricades, attack the Capitol Police, and hunt down and menace Democratic lawmakers inside the building. One difference, though, is that the Brooks Brothers riot worked.

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#Brooks Brothers Riot #Republicans #John Roberts #brett kavanaugh #amy comey barrett #Supreme Court #january 6 #insurrection #elections #politics #george w. bush

[arlengrossman]

Merrick Garland Must Go

By Arlen Grossman/ DailyKos.com/ February 25, 2024 President Joe Biden made a consequential and significant mistake when he appointed Merrick Garland to be Attorney General of the United States. Garland has turned out to be weak, clueless, and ineffective, to the point that his actions are currently endangering our very democracy. At first Biden’s appointment of Garland seemed sensible. Most of…

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#Amy Comey Barrett #Arlen Grossman #attorney general #fascism #Jack Smith #Laurence Tribe #Merrick Garland #Mitch McConnell #Robert Hur #Robert Kuttner #Robert Shrum

[thestompinggroundshowappropriate]

Vote.

#vote #election #government #SCOTUS #brett kavanaugh #amy comey barrett #abortion rights #reproductive rights

[parttimereporter]

BARRET BLOCKS

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Friday once again denied a request to challenge President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, but her brief order will not change the status quo...

As things stand, there are several pending lawsuits in play, and the Biden administration already is temporarily blocked from canceling student debt.

#amy comey barrett #supreme court #school loans #biden #politics

[americantea]

If the Supreme Court gets more religious, we could have state money going to Episcopalians performing gay weddings and Beyoncé masses, female priests teachings your kids to call God by she/they pronouns.

#it's a joke #but Fr those things sound great #I'd be ok with it #christian faith #Christianity #Christian #religion #Supreme Court #SC #AMY COMEY Barrett #religious

[retrogradeneon]

Open letter to influencers of Evil

We understand what you are saying!

Because I use computers and cell phones to communicate with people and to publish important things about our parish, or to post our homilies and because I have not yet shrugged completely the vanity of the digital world, I see a lot of the garbage that passes for news and captivates the interest of those who subscribe to what Fr. Seraphim Rose, of blessed memory, called the “one, abnormal mind.”

Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, I have been reading many statements from people involved in the entertainment industry stating that their lives were “saved” when they chose to murder the unborn and innocent child within their wombs.

While these people no longer use the correct pronouns with reference to themselves, and while they postulate opinions that conflict both with the empirical and scientific facts of human sexuality, they remain steadfast in the self confidence that their moral standard should be imposed on those of us who both know what and who we are. While they race to redefine mores to update them with the current sexual revolution, they judge the rest of us who believe that there is a Law that transcends time, consensus, and the fiat creation of Godless law.

Ironically, somehow what they say is supposed to carry weight but what I, as an Orthodox Christian Priest, the husband of one wife, the father of seven children, two of whom are happily married in faithful Orthodox relationships, and the grandfather of one thrice blessed granddaughter; somehow what I have to say is of no value. Somehow my opinion is awkward, outdated, archaic and uncool. Thank God! If the world hates me, it also hated Christ my Lord!

The line of reasoning they use is clear though. They believe that the legal murder of unborn people should be protected because what they call “good” can come from it. This is a pragmatic and fallacious line of reasoning. Pragmatic because they use the end, the “good” to justify the brutal, barbaric, satanic, and hateful destruction of innocent, unborn people. To exemplify the lunacy of their pragmatism, one only needs to age the victim a few years. At this time, I doubt they would defend the slaughter of older children on the same basis. We have seen a rise in child sex trafficking and general human trafficking over the past 10 years. But it seems, still, that their Molechitism[1] is limited. Also, the fallacy of their view is made most clear by the destructive, hedonistic, Hollywood lives lived by some of the most outspoken advocates of this perverted view. They view their disgusting art (anti-art), their trivial and monotonous noise (they call music) and the drug lubricated, sexually charged, prostitution of their bodies and minds as the highest good.

What I cannot understand is how they do not understand our reasoning. Maybe we have not been clear enough. This will be brutal, but much less so than the abortion of the innocent advocated by these perverts. I will not say our view, but my view is that life of the unborn Human Child, that will become the victim of his or her parents, is of MORE value than his or her murderers. The child in the womb is of more value because she has not yet been tainted by the sinful world and Its influences. This is definitively true and cannot be said of the murderous parents. For this reason, the would-be parents should repent and do everything possible to ensure the live birth of the child. The Law of Moses forbid the boiling of the “kid” goat in its mother’s milk. It is therefore a sin of great magnitude when the thing that is supposed to give life (the mother) is used to take life. I cannot think of a more sinister and diabolical thing.

I would also suggest that the murder of one human being by another human being to ensure the health of that human being is simply the pathology of murder. No murderer ever killed anyone thinking that it would bring him, or her anything but pleasure. And this is the testimony of the abortionist. They say that there would have been no way for them to go on (be happy) if the child had not been aborted. If you can live with that, you have bigger problems than you may know.

It is also patently clear that the would-be murderer would achieve actual goodness by sacrificing herself for the life of the innocent and unborn child. In many cases, and they are plentifully documented, the child who was spared grows up to live a full and wonderful life. In nearly as many cases the repentant mother does as well. There is no greater good than that a man, or woman, lay down his life for his brother. This good becomes exceedingly sweet because the life laid down is that of the one who is supposed to give life, and the brother is the one created fearfully and wonderfully in her womb!

The entertainment industry and its zombies live for themselves. Until they learn to love selflessly, they will continue to cry to end the war on a woman’s body. Until they repent, they will never see that the war is being waged by themselves. That they are the attacker and not the victim. Have I made myself clear?

[1] Leviticus 20:2-5 2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

#pro roe #roe vs. wade #abortion rights #lgbtq community #planned parenthood #pro choice #scotus #clarence thomas #amy comey barrett #supreme court #pro life #pro life movement #trans gay #transgender #trans pride #infanticide #Antifa #blm blacklivesmatter #jan 6 riot #neoncore #leftist #liberals #conservatives #anti abortion

[accidentalharrie]

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#i'm sick to my stomach right now #was on a work call when the breaking news alert came into my email #so everyone on that call knows exactly where i stand #fuck the federalist society #fuck brett kavanaugh #fuck clarence thomas #fuck amy comey barrett #fuck them all

[esotericvirginwhore]

I AM SCARED FOR MY RIGHTS

#roe versus wade #abortion #reproductive rights #scary times #the handmaid’s tale irl #amy comey barrett is serena joy

[doppel-soldner]

It’s not surprising that the ai art discourse is so bad given there is no actual original thought going on and it’s just a shibboleth for two groups of annoying dipshits (tech bros and people who believe in copyright)

#group 2 consists of Amy|She/They|16|Doodles and SCOTUS justice Amy Comey Barrett

[liberalsarecool]

Republican abusers love that a black justice is all for destroying affirmative action.

This matches their getting Amy Comey Barrett to destroy women's rights.

[qqueenofhades]

You know, it remains absolutely wild to me how... like... we know exactly who is responsible for this, where, when, and why. There's a short list of like 10 people. It looks like this:

Donald Trump, for being a fascist narcissistic grifter, con man, and criminal, who nonetheless managed to weaponise enough white grievance, backlash against Obama, voter apathy, Clinton smears from the Republican slime machine, and leftist moral posturing to get elected as President and have three Supreme Court picks, all of which were obtained dishonestly;

Mitch McConnell, for being the absolute worst, not to mention proudly on record as wanting to obstruct everything a Democratic president ever does, a power-hungry shriveled racist who refused to even hold hearings for Merrick Garland and then filled that seat with Neil Gorsuch, colluded with Trump to force Anthony Kennedy to suddenly retire and install drunken sex abuser frat boy Brett Kavanaugh, then jammed Amy Coney Barrett onto the bench to fill RBG's seat, eight days before the 2020 election, in brazen open hypocrisy of everything he had said about SCOTUS and election years, since the only principle that matters to him is maintaining Republican power;

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett themselves, for doing exactly what they were put on the court by theocratic dark money fundamentalist operatives to do, and joining Bush-era fascists Thomas, Roberts, and Alito to overrule Roe vs Wade, as the culmination of decades of deliberate and openly stated Republican policy;

Rupert Murdoch and the Fox News disinformation ecosystem, for creating the alternate reality that made Trump possible and continues to empower his sycophants, supporters, cronies, and other bad actors, and generated much of the anti-Clinton slime and smears that made their way into the mainstream, were endlessly repeated by so-called respectable media outlets like the NY Times, and poisoned the American electorate, already disposed to misogyny, against the most qualified (and historic) Democratic Presidential candidate there has likely ever been;

James Comey, for deciding to issue the "we are still investigating HER EEEEMAILS!" letter a week before the 2016 election, which took just enough off Clinton's increasingly narrow margins to put Trump over the top thanks to the rigged and racist Electoral College, which has often functioned exactly as designed in helping non-popular-vote-winning Republican presidents into power;

Vladimir Putin, for running a well-attested and repeatedly confirmed wide-ranging disinformation and interference campaign in the 2016 election to boost Trump, the Kremlin's pet stooge, and discredit Clinton, as part of his overall and equally well-attested scheme to disrupt and destroy Western liberal democratic institutions and boost Russian power;

And like... in terms of direct, locatable, empirically provable concrete responsibility, that's it. I'm even being charitable and leaving Bernie off this list, though I feel that he played a major part in creating both the 2016 clusterfuck and the "I'm too good to ever vote unless for my perfect socialist messiah" attitude that now prevails among much of the Online Left. That is a small number of names. Their actions are all verifiable in public records and a wide variety of news sources, both partisan and non-partisan. (Protip, anything you can only find in one news source that precisely matches your own ideological beliefs is, uh, deeply suspect.) I'm a historian. I work with verifiable facts and evidence, even if they might lead me to conclusions that I personally don't like. And any wide-sweeping broad generalisation, with absolutely no specific evidence or sources cited, is... not how it works and will get you a bad mark on an essay or research project every time.

So against this short list of 8 people, all demonstrably bad actors with bad motivations, what does your average Online Leftist do? They blame Obama, who "said he would codify Roe vs Wade and didn't!" Well, you might say, did Obama ever have a filibuster-proof pro-choice majority in the Senate? No, he didn't, but that's not an excuse, it just means he and Harry Reid didn't try hard enough (this already after McConnell's announcement about making Obama a one-term president and obstructing everything). Obama had the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression on his hands, and then spent all his political capital passing the Affordable Care Act, lost the House in 2010 as a result and the Senate in 2014, and which, despite being an actual, y'know, codified law, has been subject to literally hundreds of Republican challenges to gut, reverse, or overrule it as much as possible? YOU'RE JUST MAKING EXCUSES! WHO CARES ABOUT THE ECONOMY? OBAMA COULD HAVE DONE IT IF HE CARED AND FORESAW THE FUTURE!

Likewise, the left's other favorite scapegoat is RBG, for not "retiring in time" or otherwise precisely predicting the moment of her own death and who would be in office at the time. Literally no blame for McConnell, the one who actually and deliberately crammed the three illegitimate justices onto the bench in defiance of all protocol and precedent. So let's see... the so-called progressives are blaming a Democratic black man and a liberal Jewish woman for the actions of a bunch of evil Republican white men. Or the other laughable false equivalence I saw yesterday, which claimed that ever since the Democrats were elected in 2020, civil rights, LGBT rights, and now abortion rights were being stripped away (with the clear implication that it was their fault). This just happened on its own, I guess, and not because specific Republican-controlled state legislatures and the Republican-packed Supreme Court had deliberately done this as a strategy of pursuing and consolidating fascist power even after Trump's forced departure from the scene. Name one non-Joe Manchin/Kyrsten Sinema instance of the Democrats actively doing the same thing. I will wait.

This is not even to mention the leftists repeating straight-up QAnon propaganda about how Joe Biden is a racist sexist child molester and, I quote, "the literal scum of the earth." There are legitimate policy and performance grounds to criticise Biden on: his speech yesterday said all the right things, but it remains to be seen how much of a promised "whole of government" action will actually be made, including the available powers of the executive branch to which Biden, as chief executive, has access. His personal response has, at times, likewise seemed slow and flat-footed. But the Online Leftists have abandoned all pretense of a rational and reality-based critique, in favor of hurling the most overheated personal moral slanders possible, like the Puritans at a witch-burning. Again, I ask, we're supposed to believe that these are the progressives?

I saw a stat recently about how only 23% of American adults use Twitter. That is... not even one quarter of the country. Out of that, the Online Leftists are only a tiny percentage. These ideas are not popular or universal or just something that "everyone believes" outside of a carefully curated echo chamber. It may feel all-encompassing, but it's not, and frankly, its denizens seem to be interested in anything except building workable, practical coalitions, if it would mean taking any criticism or compromising on their exalted ideals (which, as I have noted throughout this post, really aren't as great as they seem). As I've said before, my own political views are as far left as it's possible to go, and yet, I doubtless will continue to receive more messages like the charming anon from the other day who told me to kill myself for being "bootlicking slime." This is how they like to communicate with people who otherwise agree with them on every policy level (at least as outwardly stated and certainly not as practiced). This... kind of seems like a problem.

I've likewise written before about how ideological revolutions to drastically remake societies with the Right Idea have never, ever succeeded, and only bring more pain, suffering, and death. To all those people preaching "revolution!" as the solution: you realize that all the idealistic young students manning the barricades in Les Miserables get shot, right? And that it's not an actual, legitimate political plan, not least because it isn't a plan? It's a reactive coping-mechanism magical-thinking wish that everything bad would just magically disappear in a burst of glory, and everything would be better now. It's comforting to daydream about, but it's not something any sane, rational adult really puts any stock in, since it's never something that has ever worked in history. What revolution? How? When? Surely you don't mean like the January 6 rioters, unless you do, since overthrowing the illegimate government with overwhelming violence is, oops, once again straight out of the right-wing playbook. Still waiting for those promised progressive ideals!

Basically, even in the unlikely event that they actually acquired it, I wouldn't trust the current crop of Online Leftists with power any more than I trust the Republicans, despite them outwardly sharing my beliefs and values. They haven't proven that they're interested in anything except punishing those who don't hold their exact narrow and rigid idea of "moral" views, blaming other people who again, think largely or entirely like them, threatening or using violence against anyone who disagrees with them, and finding ways to constantly excuse and ignore the actual perpetrators of illiberal Christofascism. All, again, while claiming to be progressive! Like the AO3 anti crowd, who thinks that perfect morality in the world can be achieved by aggressively and abusively policing the fiction that people write for fun in their free time, it's about using cult-like techniques and tactics to position the entire outside world as the morally inferior enemy and building in-group solidarity by attacking them. Which seems like, oh, I dunno... Trump supporters. Again. Womp womp.

I don't know. Call me an old person; I definitely am. But as terrible and cynical and generationally damaging as the Dobbs decision is, and how it represents the greatest legal denial of personhood and autonomy to American women in most of our lifetimes, there's something even worse about seeing the generation who claims to "know better" blaming the people who opposed it, excusing the people who did it, and then going straight into more nonsense about why it's not actually bad and/or twisting themselves into pretzels to invent the hypothetical (white, rich) woman who somehow won't be affected by this. Maybe that's just me in thinking that is a profoundly flawed and wrong response on literally every level, but you know, I suspect it's not. So yeah.

#hilary for ts #history #american history #politics for ts #long post

[deltamusings]

Amy Comey-Barrett is a national disgrace for this. Roberts just needs to be removed for being a gutless coward.

[graytheory]

serious question, why is it a core problem for radical feminism to exclude men? do you think all anti-racism should include white people? should all LGBT+ activism include cis/het people? aren't white lives matter/white history month and straight pride march/straight pride flag silly and offensive suggestions? men can be oppressed because of their race, sexuality etc but men aren't oppressed for being men so why does every single kind of feminism have to include/pander to men's issues? if the patriarchy oppresses men too why don't they form their own group to fight against/dismantle patriarchy? why do they need every group of feminists to fight for them in a system that men as a whole benefit from, especially when the average woman is way more sympathetic to men's issues than the average man is to women's issues?

Serious answers:

Because some men are female, like trans men, and we face every single issue cis women face, plus transphobia on top of that.

Because sexism, misogyny, the patriarchy, and toxic masculinity are not just problems women face. Men also suffer from these issues.

Because we are stronger in unity. "Divide and conquer" is ancient knowledge. Splitting everyone off into tinier and tinier communities makes us weaker.

Because the cis man who wants to be a feminist and join with you to take down the patriarchy is far more your ally than Sarah Palin, Amy Comey Barrett, or Melania Trump.

Because separatism is literally never the answer.

At the end of thee day, I can't force and don't want to force anyone to include men in their personal feminism. If you don't include men, that's your choice.

To that end, I'm not trying to change radical feminism to force it to include men. Radfems can exclude men all day long. I do not care, because personally I think radical feminism is toxic and not worth changing or saving. I think it deserves to fade away into obscurity and take its racism, transphobia, and separatism with it.

[cathademia]

I know some people are very fire and brimstone, and don't appreciate the very "love and support" tactics of most of the pro-life movement as it exists in women's spaces. They prefer to focus on a no tolerance policy, criminality, etc.

But I will say, it is this movement of love and forgiveness which has swelled our numbers. It is this side of the movement which gave us Amy Comey Barrett. And it is in this moment with this movement and with her help that Roe v Wade was overturned

God smiles when women use love and care to do the right thing

#op #i do think the love of Christian women has transformed the pro life movement #into a go and sin no more mindset #where yes abortion is illegal #but we work from a place of forgiveness #and i think that is very sexy of us

[rhyguy84]

Clarence Thomas is a piece of shit who doesn't mind taking away people's rights as long as it doesn't affect him. Only reason Loving v. Virginia isn't mentioned is because of his own relationship.

Fuck Clarence Thomas

Fuck Amy Comey-Barrett

Fuck Samuel Alito

Fuck Neil Gorsuch

Fuck Brett Kavanaugh

[democracyin-news]

Financial disclosures reveal book projects from Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett

Financial disclosures reveal book projects from Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett

The disclosure filings of Barrett — the court’s newest member — shows she received a $425,000 advance from the literary agent Javelin Group, which has represented some of Washington’s most prominent figures, like former FBI Director James Comey and former House Speaker John Boehner, in book negotiations. Gorsuch — who authored a broad-audience book called “A Republic, If You Can Keep It’ in 2019…

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